I will be at a conference in Flushing Meadow next week. Suggestions for a nice hotel nearby? Don't want to stay in Manhatten and commute each morning. Should I stay at a hotel by the airport?

Thanks

Do you want to be walkable to your conference? Will you have a car? Flushing Meadow Park is very large so knowing this will help us decide on location.

There are very few hotels in the area - primarily near either LGA or JFK airport - and unless the organizer is providing some sort of shuttle service (this seems like a really odd place for a conference) you will either have to rent a car or get the numbers of some local car services.

I suggest you go to maps.google.com and map Flushing Meadows (or better still, the exact location of the conference if you have it) and then use the "search nearby" function for hotels. You'll see what's close and which corne of the park. The Holiday Inn LGA & the Holiday Inn Express LGA are 2 I know of. Look at reviews (which should be linked on google maps).

There used to be a Sheraton in Flushing near the 7 - I assume it is still there. Where are the others staying for the conference?

There are 5 of us from Boston going to a training, mostly with folks from NYC. The training is at a Parks Dept training Center at Flushing Meadows Park (old world's fair site?). There are a number of hotels near the airport. Probably my best bet.

Sue's idea is good. If the facility is near the 7 train there is a new hotel in the Flushing Chinatown.

That way transportation and food would much easier than staying by the airport where the food choices are limited and you needs cabs to get around.

Your best bet would be Sheraton in Flushing - a fairly new hotel. You are in the heart of Flushing with some of the world's greatest Asian restaurants and lots of shopping possibilities. The #7 train at Main St. and Roosevelt Ave. is one stop from Flushing Meadows. Staying at a hotel near LaGuardia airport is miles away from your conference with barely a decent restaurant in the area and you'd need a taxi to get you to the conference - and from the conference? You can't get a taxi in Flushing Meadow Park - you'd need a car service to get you back to the airport hotel.

Thank you all. I saw the Sheraton online. It looks good.

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Oh - The Sheraton has lots of Japanese clientele. You'll enjoy it.

jroth -mentions some of the best Chinese Restaurants. Are there one or two you can suggest?
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Try here - http://www.xianfoods.com/locations.php

Xian Famous foods - the hand pulled noodles are great, the cumin lamb is incredible.

Here's a link to some Flushing Chinese restaurant reviews.
http://nymag.com/srch?t=restaurant&N..._sort_name%7C0

Spicy and Tasty is good too.

Are you training at the Flushing Meadow/Corona Park Pool? It's an incredible facility which opened last year - beautiful place, if you are, have fun!

For excellent dim sum.

Jade Asian
(718) 762-8821
136-28 39th Ave (138th Street )
Flushing, NY 11354

Joe's Shanghai is another Flushing eating possibility.

Two of my current favorite restaurants in Flushing include Fu Run and Little Pepper--both within a block or two of the Sheraton. The first is NE Chinese food and the second is Sichuan. But you will not hear much English, by patrons or staff, and there is no decor to speak of.

If you like spicy food, another great, and marginally more upscale, place, where the staff has English skills, is Hunan House on Northen Boulevard, about 4 blocks from the hotel. ..walk east from Main Street.

If you want Shanghai food, I would bypass Joe's and go to Shanghai Tide, right near the LIRR station. Passable English. There is also a Shanghai place next door to the hotel where I have not yet eaten. For great soup dumplings and noodles, Shanghai style, try Nanxiang Dumpling House on Prince Street a few steps from the Sheraton.

For Cantonese food, by far the best in Flushing is Imperial Palace (next door to Joe's Shanghai) and with English-speaking staff. For a non-adventurous newcomer, this is probably the best of the places I mention here.

You can google the addresses, or come back to me with more questions.


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